Word: diaphragms
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Five weeks ago, just as his campaign for renomination as U.S. Senator in the Sept. 9 Wisconsin primary was beginning, Joe McCarthy entered Bethesda Naval Hospital for an abdominal operation (hernia of the diaphragm). Announcing that he would be laid up for two months, McCarthy retired to the north woods to sit out the campaign. But last week Joe was campaigning for his political life. He received reporters in Milwaukee's Hotel Schroeder, where he walked around in his shorts, showing the 2-ft.-long scar of his operation. Pouring warm Martinis from a bottle on his dresser...
Most hiccups can be cured in minutes or hours by holding the breath, drinking water, applying heat to the diaphragm or breathing into a paper bag (to raise the carbon dioxide content of the air breathed). But not Jack O'Leary's. Hiccuping that goes on for months or years can eventually kill the victim through exhaustion and starvation...
...more, has gone on doctoring-$10,000, he estimates. Nobody knows exactly how many doctors he has seen, but his mother puts the number at 350. The doctors have tried such standard remedies as sedatives and drugs to slow down the impulses in the phrenic nerve, which controls the diaphragm. Jack has tried many of the unorthodox suggestions from his mailbag, and friends once tried to scare him out of his hiccups by phoning and impersonating the FBI. The scare only made him hiccup harder...
...what damage, if any, had been done to her brain. Nurse Timke had been scheduled for a minor operation on her nose, to relieve sinusitis, when she passed out cold because she was supersensitive to a local anesthetic (butacaine). It had taken 4½ minutes to open her diaphragm and begin heart massage. Afterward, the doctors could find no organic damage from oxygen starvation, but when Darline Timke first regained consciousness, she had slipped back through two years of her life. It was 1949 to her. and she was a senior at Downers Grove high school...
Electronic engineers loathe mechanical moving parts. One that has always bothered them is the light, vibrating diaphragm in the throat of a loudspeaker. Compared to the almost weightless electrons that flash through radio tubes, the loudspeaker membranes are sluggish. Their slow and clumsy response distorts the delicate signals brought to them by the electrons; the ordinary mechanical loudspeakers cannot reproduce the full range of music or the human voice. The ideal loudspeaker, the engineers have long believed, should have a diaphragm almost as weightless as the electrons themselves...